Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Meret-ocracy, or, Hand-NOTS for the Holidays

In a perfect world, everyone I love would be getting a Meret for Christmas, as they are exceedingly easy to churn out. Everyone deserves one. Honestly, if you start right now can you can easily finish by tomorrow morning, with time out for egg nog and the like. But sadly, my Holiday Handknitting 09 (tm) has consisted of frantically digging through my FO pile in order to pull out a (natty?) shawl for my mother in law. Yes, my holiday knitting is a giant serving of HELLA with a festive, heaping side-dish of NO. Just the way mama likes it!

I could imagine a person going hog wild with the various combos: 'medium size on size 7s with the large repeats/ large size on size 8s with the medium repeats', etc. It's a truly versatile pattern, people. I am quite happy with this iteration, and if I make more, I think I might have found the golden combination.

Here's to hoping that my Freethinking Pagan Pals had a rock solid Solstice and that all my Hebrew peeps had a killer Hannukah.

I know that my Christmas has been made because Peeper-Lou uttered the most Christmasy of all phrases last night under the tree: "...it's like the presents are blood and I am a vampire, tempted by them!". Happy Holidays!

Okay, Peeper Lou? Obviously has inherited her mom's funny bone. I may actually use that line with Jim's tween/teen on Thursday! Love the Meret, and I have 2 skeins of that yarn (like I have time!). Merry Christmas!

Stop being so hilarious and send me your address! You thought that pretty knitting and adorable offspring would distract me, didn't you? Ha. This pretty photo of your snowy street provides no useful geographical information, but don't think I wouldn't forward it to my CSI Ottawa office (stop laughing, surely we have one) so that they can plug it into their macro-blower-upper, zooming in on that sideways street sign and sussing out your exact location. Ve have vays...